Raising a round may not be a signal to spend aggressively, and many of the best founders stay disciplined.@yuris from @generalcatalyst advises to wait until the pain is real, then hire with intention. Taking your time can prevent painful layoffs, protect culture, and give your startup a longer runway to win.Listen to the full episode of Build Mode: https://t.co/2YuhnYT2dt ...

General Catalyst commits $5B to India over five years https://t.co/3Ijr1OPWK0 ...

General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm with more than $43 billion in assets under management, has announced it plans to invest $5 billion in India over the next five years, sharply expanding its push into the country’s startup ecosystem less than two years after merging with local venture firm Venture Highway. The commitment, unveiled at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Friday, will target startups across artificial intelligence, healthcare, defense technology, fintech, and con ...

Software is in a state of reckoning, with some $2 trillion wiped from the sector in weeks — and the man who took many of these companies public is here to make sense of it. Madhu Namburi, who was JPMorgan’s top tech banker and current Managing Director at General Catalyst, joins for an exclusive conversation on the most turbulent moment in tech markets since the dot-com bust. After 25 years on Wall Street leading IPOs for CrowdStrike, Zoom, Cloudflare, and more, Madhu left JPMorgan to run a fund that create ...

Your first 2 or 3 hires will define your company’s culture and long-term trajectory.And in the first episode of Build Mode's second season, we explore why hiring slowly and being generous are so vital for a new team, with @generalcatalyst Managing Director @yurisListen to the full episode right here: https://t.co/JAgafSmHly ...

A judge agreed with Palantir Technologies Inc. that a trio of former employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding their artificial intelligence startup but stopped short of halting their work at the new company, Percepta.Palantir sued Percepta co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Hirsh Jain last year, claiming he “began an aggressive campaign to recruit numerous Palantir employees” after leaving the company in August 2024. The firm also named two other former Palan ...

Core Viewpoint - A federal judge has granted Palantir Technologies a temporary injunction against former employees soliciting its staff for a competing AI firm, Percepta AI, amid allegations of using confidential information to create a similar software product [1]. Group 1: Legal Proceedings - The ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken prevents former Palantir vice president Hirsh Jain and senior engineer Radha Jain from soliciting Palantir employees for Percepta AI, which they launched last year [1]. - The judge also barred Joanna Cohen, a former Palantir engineer now with Percepta, from breaching her confidentiality agreement with Palantir [1]. - Palantir's lawsuit, filed in October, claims that Percepta's services are designed to enhance efficiency for businesses and government agencies using existing data, similar to Palantir's AI-powered software [1]. Group 2: Company Background - Percepta AI is backed by venture capital firm General Catalyst and was publicly unveiled in October [1]. - The defendants, including Hirsh Jain, who managed Palantir's healthcare portfolio, and Radha Jain, who contributed to the flagship software, left Palantir in August 2024 to establish Percepta [1]. - Percepta has reportedly hired at least 10 former Palantir employees shortly after its founding, with nearly half of its workforce being ex-Palantir staff [1]. Group 3: Agreements and Allegations - Palantir asserts that the defendants signed agreements prohibiting them from competing for one year after leaving, soliciting Palantir customers or employees for two years, and using any confidential information outside their employment [1]. - The lawsuit accuses the defendants of breaching these agreements and seeks to enforce compliance [1].

Group 1 - Anthropic has completed a $30 billion Series G funding round, with a new valuation of $380 billion, significantly up from the previous Series F valuation of $183 billion [2] - The funding round was led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, with participation from notable investors including D.E. Shaw Ventures, Founders Fund, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, among others [3] - This funding comes as Anthropic competes with OpenAI for customers and market attention, with OpenAI seeking an additional $100 billion in funding that could raise its valuation to approximately $830 billion [3] Group 2 - Anthropic's CFO, Krishna Rao, stated that the demand from clients, ranging from entrepreneurs to large enterprises, indicates that Claude is becoming a critical component of business operations [2]

Build Mode is back on February 19!This season, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team that will stick around to IPO and beyond. We’ve got a line-up of some exceptional guests from companies like @Taskrabbit, @Generalcatalyst, and @Getartisanai.Check out this season of Build Mode wherever you listen to podcasts, or catch us on YouTube 👀 ...

Build Mode is back on February 19!This season, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team that will stick around to IPO and beyond. We’ve got a line-up of some exceptional guests from companies like @Taskrabbit, @Generalcatalyst, and @Getartisanai.Check out this season of Build Mode wherever you listen to podcasts, or catch us on YouTube 👀 ...